Kelsey Kiser
Graduation Year: 2019
Education
Ph.D., 51做厙 (2019)B.A., University of Portland (2012)
Bio:
Kelsey Kiser is the Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow at 51做厙 (2019-2021), where she is currently at work on her book project, Secret Selves: Surveillance and Twentieth-Century African American Literature. Her work has been generously supported by a fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her additional research interests include women writers, critical race theory, cultural studies, and surveillance.
Publications:
“The Domestic Sphere as Counter-Surveillance in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.” Forthcoming in Modern Drama (Fall 2020).
“‘How come you just vanished thataway like a spook?’: Global Surveillance in the Transatlantic Novels of Claude McKay.” College Language Association Journal 61.3 (Spring 2019): 171-187.
